quitted on their oath of innocence supported by the oaths of friends; the latter were termed compurgators; puritan. PUTARE, to think; to lop; de-, dis-, repute, -ation; compute, through Fr. compter, count, ac-, dis-, recount.

QUERERE, to seek; quaesitus, sought; query, question, -ionable; quaestor, a Roman officer; ac-, in-, require; nouns in -quisition and -quest; adjectives in -tive; requisite, exquisite, (through Fr. exquisitus is said to become choose and choice?) perquisite; inquisitor, disquisition; conquer, -quest. QUANTUS, how great; quantity, quantitative, quantum, a due proportion; disquantity. Shaksp. Lear. QUATUOR, four; quartus, fourth; quadra, a square; quart, -er, -ern, -0, -an; quater-cousin, (cater-cousin,) cousin in the fourth degree; quaternion, quatrain; quadrant, -angle, -ate, -atic, -ature, rennial, -rilateral, -rille, -rillion, -ripartite, -rireme, -roon, ruped, -ruple; through Fr. quarantine, squadron, square. QUIES, rest; quietus, still; quiet, quiescent, acquiesce, quietude; requiescat, (supply in pace,) the Roman Catholic blessing of the dead; "6 nor be thy requiescat dumb," Scott; quietus, a deathblow; quit and acquit are said to come from quies; quits in gaming may be cognate with aequus, equal. QUOTUS, how much; quota, an assigned proportion; quote, to note or cite a definite quantity: Some derive quote from Lat. inquit, says; some identify it with cite; in old Sc. quote is written quod; Eng. quoth.

RADIUS, a rod, a wheel-spoke, or

any line proceeding from a centre; ray, radiate, -iant, -iance, -ial;

radiata, one of Cuvier's zoological orders.

RADIX, a root; radical, radicle,

eradicate, radish; race, lineage. RAPERE, (Gr. harpazein,) to seize; raptus, seized; rapid, rapine, rapier, rapt, rapture, ravage, rage, rave, ravish, ravine, ravin: "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf," Gen. xlix. 27; rifle, rapacious, surreptitious. Through Gr.

harpy.

RARUS, thin; rare, rarify, rarity.
RECENS, fresh; recent.
REGERE, (Gr. oregein,) to stretch
forth, to govern; rectus, ruled,
straight; rex, a king; regnare,
to reign; regal, regality, a feudal
barony with royal jurisdiction,
regalia; regent; regiment, now
limited to a body of soldiers,
formerly meaning government,
as in the title of John Knox's
treatise, "the monstrous regi-
ment of women;" regimen, re-
gion, regnant, interregnum, re-
gular, late; register; right,
-eous; cor-, di-, erect, -tion,
-tive; incorrigible; directory;
rector, -tify; rectangle, -tilineal;
through Fr. realm, reign, royal,
viceroy; through It. and Fr.
escort, from excorrigere. Me-
nage.

REPERE, to creep; reptile.
RES, a thing; reri, to think; ratus,

thought; ratio, a thought, a
principle, a proportion; real, -ize;
rate, ratio, ratiocination, ratify,
ration, rationale, rationalism,

reason.

RIVUS, a stream; river, rivulet, rill, derive, rival, originally applied to the proprietors of lands divided by a common stream; arrive, properly to come to a stream, or to its banks; Lat. ripa, Fr. rive, a bank. ROGARE, to ask; ab-, ar-, de-, interrogate, -ation, -tive, -tory; arrogant, adj. derogate, Shaksp., Lear; prerogative, applied originally to the century in the Roman comitia that gave the

first vote, hence any special privilege; prorogue; supererogation. ROTA, a wheel; rotundus, circular; rote, rotate, -ation, -atory, rotiferous, (plants;) rut, route, routine; rotund, -ity, -do; round, rundle, rundlet; rowel. RUBER, red; rubric, the directions in the Book of Common Prayer and in law writings written in red; ruby,rubescent, erubescence, rubicund, ruddy.

RUDIS, uncivilized; rude, rudiment, -ary; erudite, lit. brought out of a rude state, learned. RUMPERE, to break; ruptus, broken; rupture, cor-, dis-, interrupt, -tion, -tive, -tible; abrupt, eruption, -tive; "Rump Parliament." See the period of Cromwell in English history.

SAL, salt; saline, salad, salary,

(the military pay was partly in salt,) saliferous; salses, (saline mud volcanoes ;) saliva, salivate; saltern; salt-cellar; through Fr. sauce, saucer, sausage, season. SALIRE, to leap; part. saltus; comp. silire, sultus; Fr. saillir; sally, salient, salmon, (the leaping fish ;) saltant, (in heraldry ;) saltation; con-, ex-, in-, result; (exultant, resultant, poet. ;) resile, resilience.

SALVUS, safe, sound, healthy; salvation, -ver, -vo; salve; salute, -tation, -tary, -lubrious; save, -viour. SANCIRE, to ordain; sanctus, ordained, holy; sacer, devoted to the gods; saint, sanctify, sanctimony; saunter has been said by some to derive from suint, from the pilgrimages to the Holy Land; consecrate, execrate, desecrate; sacrament, (see Jus), sacred, sacrifice, sacrilege, sacristy, sacristen, (cont. sexton); sacerdotal.

SANGUIS, blood; sanguine, -guin

eous, guinary; consanguineous; hence through Fr. cousin. SCANDERE, to climb; scala, a lad

der; scan, -sion; a-, (for ad,) de-, conde-, tran-, reascend; nouns in scent and scension; scale, escalade.

SCINTILLA, a spark; scintillate, -ation; shine.

SCIRE, to know; conscious, conscience; unconscionable; science, scientific; omniscience, prescience, -ent; skill. SCRIBERE, (Gr. graphein,) to write, properly by carving; scribble, scrawl, scroll, scribe, scrape, scrabble; scrip, in commerce, unfunded stock; Scripture; a-, (for ad,) circum-, de-, pre-, pro-, sub-, super-, transcribe, -scription, -tive, -tible; conscript, -tion; rescript, an imperial edict; through Fr. escrutoire; scrivener. From graphein are the tribes of terms in graphy, with their adjectives, as cosmography, &c.; and those in gram, as epigram, &c. ; grammar; engrave; grave and groove, objects scooped, and carre, seem cognate with graphein; allied to it in Gr. are gluphein, which gives hieroglyph; and charassein, which gives character. SCULPARE, to carve, sculpture ; scoop.

SECARE, to cut; sectus, cut; seg

ment, secant, a cross or cutting line in trigonometry; bi-, dis-, inter-, tri- quadrisect, -tion ; sect, (in opinion,) -tion, -tary, -arian; sector, in geometry, insect, scythe, sickle, saw. SEDERE, to sit; part sessus, (comp. sidere, sessus ;) sidĕre, to sink; seat, see, (of a bishop ;) sedan, sedentary, -diment, -dulous; session, siege, assess, assiduous, assize, the session of judges, cont. size, and meaning also the imposition of a tax or a rate; hence size, at Cambridge, an assigned maintenance of scholars, (sizars ;) "to scant my sizes," i.e., to curtail my allowed maintenance, Shaksp., Lear, Act II. Scene 4; set, settle, saddle, possess, insidious, preside, president, re

side, residue, residuum, subside,
subsidy, supersede.
SENTIRE, to feel, to think; sensus,
felt; sense, -sation, -sative, -sible,
-sitive, -sual; sensorium; sen-
tient; sentence, sententious;
sentiment; sentinel, sentry;
scent; as-, con-, dis-, resent;
consentaneous, consentient, dis-
sentient; insensate.

SEPES, an enclosure; sepulchre,
sept.

SEQUI, to follow; secutus, having
followed, (Fr. suivre, suivant ;)
sequel, consequence; exsequies,
obsequies, funeral services; ob-
sequious; execute, per-, prose-
cute; pursuivant; sue, en-, pur-
sue; suit, -or, suite.
SERERE, to sow (corn); semen, seed;
sermon, (lit. discourse sown,)
-ize; seminal, -nary, disseminate;
desert, an unsown region.
SERERE, (Gr. eirein,) to bind, to
connect; series; as-, de-, ex-, in-,
intersert, -tion, -tive; dissert,
dissertation.

SERVARE, to keep; con-, ob-, pre-,
reserve, -vation, -vative, -vable;
observanda, observatory, reser-
voir.

SERVIRE, to be a slave; de-, sub-
serve; desert, to leave service;
subservient, servile, -vice;
through Fr. sergeant; dessert, a
service of fruits at the conclu-
sion of a meal.
SICCUS, dry; desiccate, exsiccate;
hortus siccus; see Hortus.
SIDUS, (Gr. cidos, a shape,) a hea-
venly body; sidereal, consider,
lit. to star-gaze. The ancients
viewed the characteristics of the
seasons as intimately connected
with the appearance of certain
constellations. On the non-ac-
companiment of the constellation
by the characteristic is founded
the verb desiderare, to miss, to
feel the want of; desiderate,
-atum, desire. Eidos, from eidein,
to see, to know, branches out in
various applications, as in idea,
idol; the tribe of words in -oid,

as cycloid, amygdaloid, (almond-
like,) spheroid, discoidal, con-
oid, ellipsoidal, &c.
SIGNUM, (Gr. eikos, like,) a mark;

sign, signal, -net, -nify, -fication,
-ficant; sigil, cont. seal; ensign,
insignia; as-, con-, de-, resign,
-nation. Eikon, (from eikos,)
an image, gives iconoclast, an
image breaker.

SILERE, (Gr. sizein,) to be still;
silent.

SILVA, (Gr. hulē,) a wood; silvan,

savage.

SIMILIS, like; simulare, to be like,
to counterfeit; simul, at once;
Fr. ensemble, at once, together;
Ger. sammeln, to collect; simile,
-lar, litude; simulate; sem-
blance, resemble, -blance, dis-
semble, dissimulation; verisimi-
litude, fac-simile; simultaneous,
assemble, same; Fr. phrase, tout
ensemble.

SIPĀRE, (obs.) to scatter; dissi-
pate, -ation.

SOCIUS, a companion, a sharer;
society, -cial, -ciable; as-, con-,
dissociate, -ation.

SOL, the sun; solar, parasol, sol-
stice, -titial.

SOLERE, to be wont; insolence; so-

lemnity, periodic ceremonial;
see Annus.
SOLIDUS, dense, firm; solid, -ity,

-ify, consolidate; consols, the
consolidated funds of the British
national debt; solder; solidus,
a coin, It. soldo ; soldier, a per-
son paid with a soldo, as we
might say in English a shilling-
man. Compare Miles; see Mille.
SOLUM, ground; soil, subsoil, sully,
to stain as with soil.
SOLUS, alone; solitary, solo in
music, soliloquy, desolate.
SOLVERE, to lose, to pay; solutus,
loosed, paid; solvency, -ent, in-
solvent; ab-, dis-, resolve, -solu-
tion, -ute; solvable; through Fr.
assoil.

SONARE, (Gr. tonos,) to sound; re-

sound; sonnet, sonorous; con-
sonant, dissonant; altisonant ;

resonant, (poet. ;) unison, benison, orison, warison; persona, a stage mask, constructed for conveying sound; person, -age, -al; impersonate; personify. SORBERE, to suck; sorptus, sucked;

ab-, resorb, -ent, absorption. SPATIUM, (from patēre, to be open,) space; expatiate, spacious. SPECIES, appearance, kind; specĕre, obs., comp. spicere, to look, part. spectus; spectare, to look; special, specie, specify, -fic, specimen, specious, spectacle, spectre; spectrum, the series of primitive colours decomposed by a prism; speculate, specular, (Milton,) spy, espionage; despise ; auspice, (see Avis ;) aspect, circumspect, conspicuous, despicable, expect, inspect, perspective, perspicuous, perspicacity, prospect, prospectus; re-, retro-, suspect, suspicion; spite and despite are associated with despise, and also with Ger. spitten, to spit; respite.

SPERARE, to hope; despair, desperate, -ation; desperado; prosper, -ity.

SPIRARE, (Gr. spairein, to struggle, th. späein,) to draw; spirit, -ual, -uous, sprite or spright, -ly, in-, despirit; a-, (for ad,) con-, ex-, per-, re-, transpire, -ation, conspiracy, expiry, spiracle. SPLENDERE, to shine; splendour, -did, resplendent SPONDERE, to promise; sponsus, promised; sponte, with the voluntary promise, i.e., accordance of any one; de-, re-, correspond, -ence, response, -sive, sible, sponsor, sponsal; spouse, (Fr. épouse.) espouse; spontaneous. STARE, (Gr. staō, th. of histemi,)

to stand; stătum, to stand; sistere, to stop, trans. and intrans.; stătum, comp. stitum, to stand; statuĕre, to cause to stand, to set, to appoint; standard, staunch, stanza (It.), stamen (of a plant); stable, establish, stall, state, statist; stay, station, -ary, adj., ery,

n.; stead, fast; staid; staple ; armi-, inter-, solstice, &c. ; constable, (comes stabuli, a feudal officer of the imperial stables, afterwards a military rank, modernly a peace-officer;) arrest, (Fr. arrêt, a decree;) restive; circum-, con-, di-, in-, stance; adj. in -ant; extant; circumstantial, substantial, consubstantiation, transubstantiation, instantaneous; superstition; as-, de-, ex-, in-, re-, per-, subsist; nouns in -ence, -ency, ance; adj. -ent, -ant; stature, statue, statute; con-, in-, pro-, substitute, -tion, -tional, -tutory; destitute; Gr. apostasy, extasy; hypostatical, (standing under a form, personal.)

STELLA, a star; constellation, interstellar.

STERNERE, (Gr. Strōnnuein,) to lay flat, scatter; consternation; stratum, -tify, -tification; substratum; straw, strew, street, prostrate; lectisternium, a Roman propitiatory ceremony in which the images of the gods were laid on couches. STINGUERE, originally to mark, from Gr. stizein, but generally used for its compound, extinguĕre, to put out a mark, to destroy, (Cicero and Lucretius ;) stigma, a mark, (chiefly one of disgrace,) a technical term in botany; stimulus, a spur, that which marks; stilus, an iron pen for writing on wax tablets; distinguish, distinct, (used by Milton in the sense of punctured or spotted, "the living wheels, distinct alike with multitude of eyes," Par. Lost, book vi. 846 ;) extinguish, extinct, instinct, prestige (?), vestige (?); stigmatize; "foul stigmatic" is applied by Queen Margaret to Richard III., Shaksp.; instigate; stimulate; style, manner of writing; and a term in botany. STRINGERE, (Gr. strangein, Ger. strängen, to bind,) to tie,

stretch; strain, con-, re-, distrain; stress, distress; strict, -ture; strait or straight; stringent; a-, constringe; a-, con-, restrict, -tion, -tive; streak, stretch, string, struggle. STRUERE, to build; structus, built; structure, construe; destroy; con-, ex-, in-, obstruct, -tion, -tive, -tible; deobstruent. STUDERE, (Gr. spoude, diligence,) to study; student, -dious. STUPERE, (Gr. tuptein,) to be astonished, stunned; stupor, -pid, -pendous, -pefy, -faction. SUADERE, (Gr. (h)adeō, for (h)andano, I please,) to advise ; suasus, advised; dis-, persuade, -sion, -sive, -suasion. SUERE, to sew; Sc. sutor, a shoe

maker, the appellation of hills on the coast of Cromarty; suture. SUMERE, (sub-emere,) to take; sumptus, taken; as-, con-, pre-, resume, -sumption, -sumptive, -tuous, -sumable; sumptuary, -tuous.

SUPERUS, high; summus, highest ; supernal, superior, supreme, -macy; summit, sum, consummate, -mation; superb; through Fr. sovereign, suzerain. SURGERE, (sub-regere,) to rise; surge, insurgent, in-, resurrection; surf; source.

TABULA, (dim. of obs. taba, Gr. obs. tanein, allied to teinein, to stretch,) a table; tabular, tablet, entablature. TANGERE, (Gr. obs. taien, tagein, allied to teinein, to stretch,) to touch; tactus, touched; tact, intact; integer, untouched, unbroken, hence through Fr. entire; integrant, gral; contact, contagion, contiguous, contingent, tangible; redintegrate, integrity; attach, detach, tack; tingle; Sc. tig, to touch; tickle, through the dim. verb titillare, hence titillate, -ation; entangle.

TARDUS, slow; tardy, retard, -ation. TEGERE, (Gr. stegein), to cover;

tectus, covered; tegument, integument; de-, protect, protectorate; deck (of a ship); in old language to deck a table is to cover it; deck, to ornament, may be associated with decor, beauty.

TEMPLUM, (Gr. temnein, to cut,) a sacred space marked out; temple, contemplate. Temnein and tome, the act of cutting, give— tome, a cut book, in opposition to volume, a rolled book; atom, anatomy, entomology.

TEMPUS, (Gr. temnein, to cut,) measured duration; time, season, weather; timeous, temporize, temporary, tempest; through Fr. tense; contemporary, -raneous; extempore, -rary, -rize, -raneous; temper, -ate, -ance, -ature; distemper, obtemper, temple, (of the head, where the pulse beats time.) TENDERE, (Gr. teinein,) to stretch; tentus or tensus, stretched; tend, -ency, tender, v., tendon; tendril; at-, con-, dis-, ex-, in-, por-, pre-, sub-, superintend; nouns in -tion, -ance; adj. -tive, -sive, -sible; tense, adj. -sion, intense; attent, (Shaksp. Hamlet,) intent, adj. and n.; portent, n., -ous; pretence. TENERE, to hold; tentus, held;

freq.

tentare, to try; tenant, -ure, -nor, -net, -nement, -nancy, -nacious, -nable; abs-, apper-, con-, de-, enter-, main-, ob-, per-, sustain; nouns in -ence, -tion, -ment, -ance; adj. in -ent, -able; content, that which is contained; continue, countenance (?), the features contained; impertinence; incontinent (immediate); lieutenant, malcontent, purtenance, retinue; attempt, temptation, tentative; tenon, the notch in a beam that holds the mortise. TERERE, (Gr. terein,) to wear by rubbing; tear, trite, triturate, attrition, contrite, detriment, deteriorate, detritus; contrive. TERMINUS, (Gr. terma,) a boun